Posted on 09/30/2011 5:26:39 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Or is it only the welfare-industrial complex that runs greater and greater segments of American society?
Yes, our Spender-in-Chief, B. “Tax-the-Rich” Obama said in an interview that “this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft and, you know, we didn’t have that same competitive edge that we needed over the last couple of decades. We need to get back on track.”
Two points: When, Barack, did you start thinking — or, more to the point, start saying — that America was “a great, great country”? It wasn’t so long ago that you were jetting around the world apologizing for America. What changed your mind? Could it be that your handlers have let you in on the fact that bad-mouthing the country is not a good re-election strategy?
They’re right about that, you know, but my chief point is the second: Who told you that America had lost its competitive edge “over the last couple of decades”? Whoever it was, you should sack him. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Like Koko in the Mikado, I have a little list, and I offer it to you, Barack, free and for nothing, without tax or levy:
Google. Yahoo. Facebook. Microsoft. Intel. Apple. Cisco. Adobe. Oracle. Wikipedia. YouTube. Twitter. Sun. Amazon. eBay.
What do these world-bestriding colossi have in common? One thing is, they’re American companies. What other country can field a tenth as many innovative tech companies? None.
No, there is nothing flaccid about American business. There’s plenty of keenness on its “competitive edge.” It’s far and away the most productive and innovative economic machine in the world.
What’s “gone soft” and lost its “competitive edge” is American government, which can’t see a pile of money it doesn’t wish to expropriate in order to feed its “spread-the-wealth-around” socialist appetite and which sees government as the adversary rather than the enabler of business. That’s the rotten softness we have to worry about.
So please, Barack, don’t tell us that America has “gone soft” or “lost its competitive edge” when it’s you and your policies that are as soft and edgeless as a freshly shucked oyster. Once again, you have demonstrated beyond cavil that you have no idea what you are talking about. If you and your army of tax-hungry, regulation-spewing bureaucrats would just get out of the way, you’d see in a matter of months what the most innovative and productive economy in the world could do with respect to jobs here at home. But job creation is yet another thing you haven’t a clue about.
Cato the Elder used to end his speeches with the exhortation “Carthago delenda est,” “Carthage must be destroyed.” A friend suggested a fitting imperative for our times: OMG, “Obama must go.” I like it and plan on using it myself. I encourage others to follow suit.
OMG!
Need a bumper sticker.....
America has gone soft because it’s rotting from the inside out starting in DC. Our political class are a bunch of criminals who are only in politics to enrich themselves. There are two paths to stop this erosion. A political revolution which we have seen with the Tea Party. The questions is whether it has legs and will bring forth sincere politicians who will do as they say and say as they do. The other, more common to history, is a bloody revolution, which I fear will end up happening in the next 20-30 years as our country continues to get raped by both parties and the living, tax paying citizens say enough is enough.
America has gone soft because it’s rotting from the inside out starting in DC. Our political class are a bunch of criminals who are only in politics to enrich themselves. There are two paths to stop this erosion. A political revolution which we have seen with the Tea Party. The questions is whether it has legs and will bring forth sincere politicians who will do as they say and say as they do. The other, more common to history, is a bloody revolution, which I fear will end up happening in the next 20-30 years as our country continues to get raped by both parties and the living, tax paying citizens say enough is enough.
Democrat's anti business polices have weakened America and then they whine that the American people aren't what they used to be.
Obama is truly an anti Christ.
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Corporate tax rate is only 15%
Individuals are paying 30%
Drudge is running with this...it will get some play.
Now the Republicans needs to nail Obama on this.
WTF?
excellent!
that’s strange, I get that same feeling too.
Civilizations fall because of internal rot, decay, and corruption--decadence.
American decadence exploded into full expression as the counter-culture movement of the 1960s.
The American people thought the counter-culture movement was embodied in flower children singing Kum Bayah. It wasn't. The embodiment of the counter-culture movement was Charlie Manson.
Today the consequences are obvious--but millions of Americans are oblivious to it all.
lheal Loren Heal :Not much out of #attackwatch since they started. They must have #gottensoft.
It just seemed to me that he left is the one who has turned everybody into a bunch of pu&&ies, with all the non-stop whining, agitating, enviro-scares, and community organizing that has been going on for decades. Now Obama always thought the private sector was just “there” and it could be taxed, regulated, indebted, and exploited in unlimited amounts. America’s Chicken truly are coming home to roost.
EWErickson Erick Erickson
Dear Mr. President, the American people and business haven’t gone soft. They’ve gone out of business thanks to you.
9 hours ago
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